Yes Radio is a great way to enjoy music. Last week I discovered that this technology is keeping track of what q104 is playing on-air. Simply type in the name of your favorite local station like “Q104″ and then search their catalog. You can browse their current playlist, top songs and songs from the past 7 days. When you see a song you like you can click on it to watch the video of song or read the lyrics. At all times, you can chat with other listeners too.

http://www.yes.com

A few months ago, 107.3 The Wave, a smooth Jazz format station, went off terrestrial radio but still lives in non-traditional formats. You can now listen to The Wave three ways: iPhone app, online or on HD radio. I was always a big fan of the station because they always play upbeat music from artists like Dave Koz, Euge Groove, Sade, Craig Chaquico, George Benson and Richard Elliot. Follow the link below to listen to the WNWV streaming station online.

http://wnwv.northcoastnow.com/listen-live/

Do you start your day with a cup of coffee? Here is a top ten list of songs about the sweet nectar of heavens that gets you through the day.

Top 10 Best Coffee Songs
1. Black Coffee in Bed – Squeeze
2. Black Coffee – All Saints
3. Java Jive – Manhattan Transfer
4. Afternoons and Coffee Spoons – Crash Test Dummies
5. The Coffee Song – Frank Sinatra
6. It’s Time For The Percolator – Cajmere
7. One More Cup of Coffee- Bob Dylan
8. Tom’s Diner – Suzanne Vega
9. Folger’s Theme Song
10. Maxwell House Theme Song

Do you have any songs to add?

John Mellencamp dominated the 1980s and 1990s as an outstanding American song writer / performer. Today, try your hand at completing a mini or regular Sentune. Once again, the object of a Sentune is take song titles of an artist and create a sentence with them. Three song titles equal a mini-Sentune and five song titles equals a full-Sentune.

Mini-Sentune:
Jack and Diane get a leg up under the boardwalk
Pink houses crumblin down under the boardwalk

Full-Sentune:
Again tonight, Jack and Diane dance naked under the boardwalk when Jesus left Birmingham

Songs to help:
Again Tonight
My Sweet Love
Wild Nights
Hurt So Good
Get A Leg Up
Authority Song
Key West Intermezzo
ROCK in the USA
Under The Boardwalk
Love and Happiness
Rain on The Scarecrow
Pink Houses
Need A Lover
Dance Naked
Cherry Bomb
Small Town
Lonely Ol’ Night
Jackie Brown
Freedom’s Road
What if I came Knocking
Human Wheels
Just Another Day
Crumblin Down

http://www.mellencamp.com/

Actor Robert Culp passed away yesterday at the age of 79.  Many folks from the Baby Boom generation and earlier likely remember him most for teaming up with Bill Cosby in the 1960s television show I Spy.  Perhaps younger generations remember him as the father of Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.  I think I’m not alone, though, among Generation Xers in remembering him as William Katt’s sidekick, Bill Maxwell, in the early 1980s television show The Greatest American Hero.  The show also produced Joey Scarbury’s only hit song — “Theme from Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not),” which peaked at Number 2 in August 1981, and can be heard above.

The Fredriks perform a perfect medley of TV themes including Family Guy, The Simpsons, OC, Married with Children, 2 and Half Men, Cheers, Freeks and Geeks, X-Files, Firefly, The Office, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Scrubs, Charles in Charge and many more. The sad thing is that theme songs of TV shows are now less than 5 seconds. I guess a medley in the future will take two minutes.

One of my favorite mash-ups or all-time. The vocals from the Door’s “Riders on the Storm” with the music/vocals of “Rapture” by Blondie.

… for the pairing of Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in an engaging storyline that made Pretty Woman one of the biggest films from 1990, with a soundtrack full of heavyweights that produced three Top 40 hits:  “King of Wishful Thinking” by Go West, “Wild Women Do” by Natalie Cole, and the No. 1 hit “It Must Have Been Love” by Roxette, which is featured above.  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the film, which is such a classic that many twentysomethings who were just a few years old when it came out recognize it.